Apple’s new smartwatch has been hiding a certain feature in plain sight: a secret charging port.<\/p>\n
The discovery was highlighted by accessories maker Reserve Strap, which plans to offer a band that charges your Apple Watch while you wear it, instead of making you wait for it to charge via wireless, inductive charging.<\/p>\n
Reserve Strap’s original design relied on the inductive charging space on the back of the Apple Watch, but the company posted a message a few days ago updating its intentions, after discovering the hidden port.<\/p>\n
“Our engineers have been able to independently confirm that\u00a0the 6 pin diagnostic port underneath the Apple Watch case can be used for charging<\/p>\n
the 6 pin diagnostic port underneath the Apple Watch case can be used for charging<\/span>,” reads the company statement. “The Reserve Strap will take advantage of this using a simple, retractable connector instead of the previous inductive charging cradle design.”<\/p>\n We immediately took a look at our own, in-house Apple Watch and confirmed the existence of the ovoid port, which has a tiny, circular indention that could be used in conjunction with a tool to\u00a0open the port.<\/p>\n Although Reserve Strap is, so far, the only company to lay claim to testing the port’s viability as a charging solution, if their tests are accurate, it could spark a great deal of activity among third-party accessory makers looking to invent new ways to interact with the Apple Watch.<\/p>\n However, would-be Reserve Strap buyers should keep in mind that Apple hasn’t offered this port as an charging option.<\/p>\n would-be Reserve Strap buyers should keep in mind that Apple hasn’t offered this port as an charging option.<\/span> Apple’s decision on that point may have been made for a very good reason that could be related to anything from safety concerns to simple functionality issues.<\/p>\n Either way, while Reserve Strap’s $250 accessory looks like a slick charging solution, it might be a bit early to advise anyone to strap a non-Apple-approved charging device to your wrist.<\/p>\n The potential downside may end up impacting more than just your bank account.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Source:\u00a0mashable.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Apple’s new smartwatch has been hiding a certain feature in plain sight: a secret charging port. The discovery was highlighted by accessories maker Reserve Strap, which plans to offer a band that charges your Apple Watch while you wear it, instead of making you wait for it to charge via wireless, inductive charging. Reserve Strap’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":113839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-113838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}